AS83: Category 5 Shitstorms, with James Lindsay
Serious Inquiries Only
Thomas Smith
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2014
⏱️ 44 minutes
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This week I have James Lindsay on the show, @goddoesnt on Twitter, to discuss the recent shitstorm that resulted from Peter Boghossian's tweets. This is a chance to talk at a deeper level about what's going on when these shitstorms happen. Does the phrase "gay pride" make sense? If so, is it the most effective … Continue reading AS83: Category 5 Shitstorms, with James Lindsay
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to, atheistically speaking. Oh, Hello and welcome to atheistically speaking this is episode number 83 with |
| 0:36.8 | your host Thomas Smith with me today is oh I of course forgot what you would like, or forgot to ask you what you'd like to go by, James? |
| 0:46.0 | Yeah, James is not. |
| 0:47.0 | Easy enough, okay, you don't, Colonel or Doctor or Sir, or no, no crazy titles, huh? |
| 0:53.2 | Doctor is a funny title. |
| 0:54.7 | It's one of these things that you earn and then everybody that you know you deal with |
| 0:58.8 | professionally kind of has them so nobody uses it. |
| 1:01.8 | Right. So it's a very weird title. It's like I get I think my |
| 1:07.1 | deliveries from like Amazon.com come with doctor and that's I think |
| 1:10.5 | sitting yes. Anyone could do that though. I should set mind to do that. |
| 1:15.0 | Just to pretend I have a doctorate. |
| 1:17.0 | You should maybe put like uncle. |
| 1:19.0 | Uncle, what? |
| 1:20.0 | Yeah, why not? |
| 1:21.0 | Yeah, well I am an uncle. I have a Catholic half of my family, so I'm uncle 50 times over, so. |
| 1:27.6 | Uncle Thomas, that's who gets your man. |
| 1:30.4 | Okay, so, but of course, you do have a PhD so I was I was curious it's always funny though |
| 1:36.4 | It's like doctor, you know someone says like this is there a doctor in the house |
| 1:39.2 | You're like well, yes, but no I can't help whatever's happening but yes I'm a doctor |
| 1:44.5 | yeah exactly so can you tell me a little bit about yourself yeah so I guess the main |
| 1:51.0 | thing that's relevant here is that I try to write and speak on topics relevant to secular society and I've written two books that would be classified under the |
| 2:07.6 | atheist genre. My educational background I have a degree in physics and then went on to get a |
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